Window plant-box.



PATENTED JAN. 29, 1907 A. J.; SCHOENECKIZ; WINDOW PLANT BOX. lAPPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 29, 19oe.

y f[720627230X "UNITED s'rArEs PATENT oF'irIoEl- ,..ftUeUsT J. sCHoENEoKE, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 'I

WINDOW PLANT-Box.

Specification orf Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 29, 1

Application tiled September 29, 1906. 4'Serial No. 336.750.

To all whom it .moy verwerft: i

Be' it knownl that I, AUGUST J. SCHOEN- ECKE, va citizen of the United States, residing at 3519 Soutlnvestern'Boulevard, in the County of Cook and State ot Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Window Plant-Boxes, of which the following is aspeeitieat-ion.

My invention relates to an improvement in the construction-of boxes for growingr lants or 'flowers which are adapted to tit on t ,1e in' ner sills or outer ledges o windows 5 and it relates particularly to an improven'ient in boxes 1n the class referred to whieh are con strueted to render them selfwatering to the root-s of the plants growing in the soil they contain.

` In the aeeompanyiner drawings', Figure 1 is a broken perspective view of a window plantbox of my im )roved construction, and Fie. .2 a section tallien at the line 2 2 on Fig. 1

` viewed 1n' the direction ot" thevarrows and out-er ledge. of a window.

showing soil in the box. ,A i

A'is a box, which Inav be formed of sheet metal or 'other suitable material and of bropershape to adept it to -lit the inner sill or As shown, it is ol" oblong;r reetangnlar shtpe. Within the box is contained a false. bol-tom B, )rovided with depeI/Idingr end flanges (l and side flanges b, at

, which thev false bottom, whieh sn-ngly'l'its in side the box A, bears on the inner surtaee o'l tlufbottom of' the latter and forms the inter-l posed water-reservoir (l,l with which .eom Inunieates, through a flange l), a i|llingspt ut D, secured on a side ol' the box and extending to or short of the level ol the lalse bottom.'

-At intervals inl t-he l'alse bottom l, pre,ler-y abl alongrr its eenter are provided holes e, eaei hole eon'linmg at. lts neek portion a sponge E, expandedinto a head above the false bottom and into a sin-lilar head within the reservoir C.

i Y 4With thereservoir supplied with water in which the lower ends ol the Sponges are 1mmelsed and theupper ends ofthe sponges embedded in soil l." in the box upon the ia'lse bottom and bedding the roots of growing plants or flowers (not shown) the latter are t automatically watered by the capillary t' tion of the s enges or other suitable'eapilla roots take their supply.

The false bottom B 1 s renderedbylniy sheet. metal is liable to wear out, as fromrustw will out ast several of sueh false bottoms. V

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent', is

removable false bottom of s ieet mdtal'havof the box proper bottom and form a. watelsA reservoir, Sponges confined in said holles'to "project-.above the false bottom and below'the same into the reservoir,and`a filling-spouton said box diseharging into the reservoir.

eombination, a box proper rovided Witli'a; removable filse bottom of s eet metal confu tammeholes and having depending an'es flanges, from tno inner surface of -theubox t. W.. B. VDAviEs,

J. H. LANnEs.

t. t window flower-box comprising, combination, a box proper. rovidedfwithaf '19 ing,- dependingr flanges and containing holes,-I said bottoni iitting within the box proper to space it', by its flanges, freni-the inner'surfaee extending entirely'about it, said bottom t l, ting-withinlhe boxproper to space 1t, by 'its tending upward on the outer side, of the box to; the plane of said false bot-4 medium in rawing water from the resrvoir.; and transferring it to the soll,` from which then v proved construction readily removable for- 55 cleaning the box when desired and to adapt" it to be easily replaced by a new false'bottom. The false bottom being preferably formedoil ing, and by rendering it thus removable'itf1- may be readily replaced by a, new one as often as required at small expense, while the' box proper, even though made of sheet metal', i

proper bottomv and forni a water-reservoir, 

